By FEE UCD As has been well documented, when Labour became the balance of power under the Spring Tide, one of their lasting achievements was the abolishment of third level fees for all undergraduates. Next week, students of UCD will be asked whether or not they want to abandon this principle in favour of…
Free Education for Everyone is calling on all those who believe in universal education to attend this USI Congress next week – delegate or not.
Since the start of the school year in 2008 and the financial crisis which swept the globe, the government and the institutions mandated and constituted to administer and develop the education system have taken many radical steps to reform and reshape the education system. This is achieved within a framework derivative of the neo-liberal philosophy…
Galway, Ireland. 22ú Feabhra/February 2011 Students, led by the group Free Education for Everyone Galway, are set to march against the planned increase of Third-Level fees to €3000 by 2015 and the abolition of the Postgraduate grant. The march will take place in Galway on Wednesday, 29 February at 1pm, with participants marching from NUIG’s campus…
By Joseph Loughnane (FEE Galway) Education should be about teaching people how to think, not what to think. Third level education today however has become no more than state subsidised training. Universities are now just a huge assembly line churning out regimented workers for the benefit of corporations, banks and big business. Terms such as…
By Alan Spencer (FEE Galway) On November 2nd, 2011 the Fine Gael / Labour government paid out over 700 million euro to the unsecured bondholders of Anglo Irish Bank – a bank that no longer effectively exists or functions as such, a bank that so far has swallowed up billions of euro of Irish taxpayers money…
By James Falconer (FEE Galway) How would you feel if you were bombarded with Sky News upon entering the university library? Considering there are a few TV screens around the library giving information about catalogue training etc. Would anyone object to this public space becoming private? I frequent the Kingfisher gym and there’s not one,…
by Gerard Madden (FEE Galway) Free Education for Everyone Galway is part of the latest expression of a long international tradition of student radicalism, dating back to the 1960’s, which seeks to challenge the injustices that exist throughout society. In the United States, for example, students held sit-ins, occupations and marches against the imperialist war…
By Sarah McCarthy (FEE Galway) Recently, Education Minister Ruarí Quinn and Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced that third-level fees will have reached €3,000 by 2015. Coupled with the recent removal of the maintenance grant for Post-Graduate degrees, this measure comes as a serious blow to current and prospective students. The same week as this revelation, FEE…
This article originally appeared in the Student Observer (2/2/12) In his first article for the Student Observer, Eoin Griffin writes of the need for a coherent and empathetic student leadership in the wake of serious problems locally and nationally. Recently in UCD some 300 students marched in protest at cut backs to student services. This…